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Later she used to advise her disciples when they complained of being so overburdened with the problems of the world that they never found quiet to meet God or to drink of the spring by which they lived: “Build an inner cell in your soul and
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“Love is never compelled, except in hell. There, love has to submit to justice.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“The man who says, ‘I am so stupid,’ instead of ‘Lord be merciful to me, I sinner,’ is still far from rebirth.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“We pray not in order to achieve divine union - we achieved that in baptism - but to develop it.”
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“Conscience is always enlightened when sin is seen as hurting someone we love. No sin can touch one of God’s stars or silence one of His words, but it can cruelly wound His heart. Once the Penitent understands this truth, he can see why he has such emptiness and desolation and his soul: he hurt the one he loves.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“The fall of the priest is completed by these steps: neglect of prayer, withdrawal to a distance from the Eucharistic Lord, dedication to a comfortable existence, negligence concerning occasions of sin and, finally, the substitution of a creature for Christ.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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